NEW NANCY CARROLL TALKIE

Evening Star, Issue 20610, 9 October 1930, Page 7

NEW NANCY CARROLL TALKIE

REGENT WILL RELEASE ‘ HONEY ’ Tlio musical talking picture ‘ Honey,’ which comes to the Jlcgenb Theatre tomorrow, shows vivacious Nancy Carroll in a role especially written for her. ‘ Honey ’ is light and genuinely funny, the ruses and" romances of three separate love affairs providing rollicking entertainment from beginning to ond. Miss Carroll is Olivia, daughter of the Dangerfields, a proud but poor pioneer family of Virginia. Circumstances force Olivia to lease the parental mansion, and her tenant is a wealthy American widow, with whom perfect servants are an obsession. In accordanco with her wishes, Olivia hires a staff of three. Of these only Mayme, the upstairs maid, arrives, bringing with her her little daughter, Doris. In desperation Olivia persuades her brother Charles to assume the duties of butler, and she herself takes up her domain in the kitchen, whore she makes an unusually charming cook —as far as appearance counts. Burton Crane, whom the rich widow designs to make her son-in-law, discovers this, and it is not long before Cora, the daughter, is enamoured with butler Charles—a sorry state of affairs, and one that is responsible for much laughter. The widow is an eager purchaser of _ the secrets of romance at live dollars apiece. Bub there is nothing _ disappointing about the finale, which is hut the beginning for three pairs of lovers, and marks the close of a farce of pure enjoyment. There are several tuneful songs in ‘ Honey,’ tlio best being ‘ In My Little Hope Chest,’ sung by Nancy Carroll.